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Viewpoint: Died “with measles” vs. died “from measles”: RFK, Jr.’s dangerously subversive word games
The pandemic-era line “died with COVID, not from it” has come back, and this time it’s being used to leave ...
Vaccine hesitancy, like malaria, surges globally, topping 35% in some countries
As trust in vaccines weakens worldwide, it has been found that in some countries, more than one in three adults ...
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s? The latest grifter, social media scam.
Social media is selling Alzheimer’s blood tests as a crystal ball for healthy people, and the evidence doesn’t back it ...
Viewpoint: Even lousy scientific articles can shield authors when they hype dubious health claims and products
Peer review in reputable journals gives scientific claims an authority that commercial speech rarely enjoys. But what happens when scientists ...
Defying public perceptions, U.S. cancer deaths plunged 35% since 1991
The U.S. is winning more ground against cancer than many people realize. The overall cancer death rate fell 35% between ...
Social media influencers are driving food misinformation across Europe
Scroll long enough and someone will promise that a supplement, superfood or detox tea can fix whatever ails you. Those ...
Viewpoint: Kennedy’s ‘bad science’: MAGA embrace bolsters HHS secretary’s influence and popularity
Pennsylvania has recorded four measles deaths this year — the state’s first in 35 years — yet the federal government’s ...
Viewpoint: After firing the entire National Science Board, Trump reshapes funding initiatives. Here’s the good and the bad.
The National Science Foundation is steering most of its money away from grants for individual researchers’ best ideas and toward ...
What constitutes a measles death? RFK, Jr. maneuvers to restrict definition to make pandemic seem less dire
The CDC's decision to scrub two Pennsylvania measles deaths from its public tally, replacing them with an asterisk, has experts ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: America’s health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it
America's health care system is broken. The price of insurance continues to accelerate while access to quality care continues to ...
Viewpoint: 7-OH controversy: An opioid is available over-the-counter–even at gas stations. Should we be concerned?
A potent opioid is sitting on gas station shelves next to the beef jerky, and anyone with $20 can buy ...
RFK, Jr. likely violated federal ethics guidelines in accepting more than $4,275,000 in gifts and book advances from MAHA allies
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accepted $4 million in book advances and more than $270,000 in gifts over the ...
New federal autism committee head has financial ties to leucovorin
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has handed the reins of federal autism research to a doctor with a commercial stake in ...
The exploding controversy over AI’s built-in survival drive
In controlled safety tests described earlier this year, researchers asked AI models to solve a series of simple math problems ...
Current and future RFK Jr. aides criticize his science-rejectionist vaccine views
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent years casting doubt on vaccines, but the people lined up to work ...
Trump administration clears the way for speedy approvals of once-restricted tobacco vapes and pouches
The Trump administration wants to make it easier for flavored vapes, nicotine pouches and other newer tobacco products to reach ...
Viewpoint: SCOTUS poised to address First Amendment tension between mandatory vaccines, children’s health and religious freedom
A mother in New York State who claims to oppose vaccines because of her Catholic faith lost an emergency appeal ...
80% of Americans take (mostly useless) supplements for their health
Nearly eight in ten Americans take at least one pill, powder or gummy in the name of good health, as ...
After Idaho criminalized abortion providers in 2022, one-third of obstetricians fled. Health care advocates are making rural health the case for repealing the ban
Idaho's campaign to overturn one of the nation's toughest abortion bans is centering on doctors rather than abortion itself, as ...
How can we know if social media bans actually help teens?
Australia’s first-in-the-world social media ban for kids under 16 has so far produced more workarounds than results. That’s exactly why ...
‘We are dangerously addicted to antidepressants’: Should we heed RFK Jr.’s sobering warning?
Drugs for treating depression are among the most prescribed category of medications in the U.S. – 1 in 6 American adults ...
Viewpoint: Why do online health lies outlive the evidence that debunks them? Read “Everyone Else Is Lying to You”
Medical misinformation has a peculiar advantage: it can outlive the evidence that disproves it, especially when yesterday’s contrarians become today’s ...
There has been a slew of recent reports of food recalls and foodborne outbreaks. Do we face an escalating problem?
Egg recalls, salmonella-linked jalapeños and a spike in cyclospora cases have dominated headlines this year, but the U.S. food-safety system ...
Facing pressure from Trump administration, fewer hospitals offer medical treatment for transgender minors
At least six major U.S. hospitals have signed deals with the Department of Justice agreeing to stop providing gender-affirming hormones ...
Viewpoint: The fake controversy over whether combining childhood vaccines is dangerous— a debate science resolved 25 years ago
For inexplicable reasons, the vaccine spacing debate has popped up yet again, courtesy of President Trump's executive order revisiting childhood ...
Investigative group ProPublica finds links between ectopic pregnancy deaths and abortion bans
This story was originally published by ProPublica. The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent ...
AI sparks a bioweapons race
Artificial intelligence chatbots can’t yet hand a bad actor a ready-made plague, but the queries Anthropic flagged this month suggest ...
